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IdolHands takes a look at BarackObama.com and JohnMcCain.com to see how they stack up against each other in standards-compliance and design. The verdict? Republicans still have work to do.

Hasn't been updated in a while, but an interesting idea:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/robots.txt

10% of home users still on dial-up, broadband availability still an issue in rural communities

Home broadband adoption continues to grow, with 55% of Americans now having broadband connections at home.

Just 10% of Americans are still using dial-up. Broadband growth was also strong with lower-income Americans as well as in rural communities, according to the Pew Research Study. Unfortunately, 24% of would-be rural broadband users say they can't get service.

While broadband is finally becoming the norm in America, speeds are still very low compared to other countries. The US lags far behind countries like Japan, France and Korea which have download speeds of up to 93Mbps. Typical broadband download speeds in the US are less than a 10th of that.

The popular social bookmarking site Digg has added Austin's Alex Jones' conspiracy-theory site prisonplanet.com to its list of banned URLs. Jones fans are going nuts.